Mikey,
They were doing a bunch of traditional California music from the 1850's-1900 on the stage. My wife watched that stuff more than I did. I suspect it was the Spanish dancing and music that you would have heard and danced had you been in California in the middle 1800's. California won independence in 1848, and became a state in 1850, so most of the early music was Spanish. The Saturday was the annual Family Festival, and there were a bunch of arts and crafts programs for children to participate in, music, and of course us model railroaders.
Josh- We meet for monthly business meetings on the second Wednesday of every month at the Sunkist Branch of the Anaheim Library on Sunkist between Lincoln and Ball Rd. Sunkist parallels the 55 freeway and is the first street west of the freeway when you exit at Lincoln. I'm not sure about Ball Road, but if it isn't the first street it will be the second one.
Mike- J Paul Getty designed and endowed the museum and I think he bought the property before he died. It is a huge, sprawling, art museum built on the side of the Santa Monica Mountains on the West side of the Sepulveda Pass. It is on the side of the mountain almost to the top. The Santa Monica Mountains divide Downtown Los Angeles from the San Fernando Valley. The facility consists of 4 main buildings N, W, S, & E. I suspect the letter designations stand for North, West, South, and East, but they are not laid out in a square, so directions are approximate. There is a water feature at the top of the museum that flows into a stream going through a huge, long garden that changes plant types as it goes along to replicate native plants in California from the Oregon Border to Mexico. There is also a desert garden. The buildings are all 3 or 4 stories tall, and laid out so that the tiles in the walkway line up perfectly with the tiles on the sides of the buildings which line up perfectly with the tiles on any ceilings that are in place. Some of the outdoor are open, where we set up the layout, their was a roof, but it was open on all sides. It is hard to see it because of the way the sky blends in, but in the first picture on the first page the lower part of what looks like sky is actually the Pacific Ocean probably 10-15 miles distant. We received parking passes because we were a part of their program, but normally parking costs $10.00 for the day. There is no charge for the museum. If you took public transportation to get there, the museum would be entirely free! I suspect that the parking fee goes to maintain and operate the trams that are used to bring people up from the parking lot to the museum. The parking lot is about 2 miles away down the hill!
